The North Korean leader’s influential sister, Kim Yo Jong, denounced the U.S. on Sunday for spreading “baseless disinformation” that it is working with China toward denuclearization, reiterating a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the DPRK that the international community will never succeed in reversing Pyongyang’s “irreversible” nuclear status.

In a statement published by the ruling party-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, Kim disputed the State Department’s reported statement earlier this week that U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed their shared goal of the denuclearization of North Korea during their summit last month.

“This is